"What in the nine realms were you thinking?" Candy jumped at the sound of his angry voice and quickly gave him a hug. "You alright? What the hell happend? One minute I'm bitching at Tony then the next I'm in a shit load of pain, then I'm here! ... I'm confused.. and scared.." She admitted as she nuzzled her face in his chest, his arms tightening around her protectivly as his anger melted away.

"You didn't mean to do it?" She shook her head and looked up to him, "What happend? What'd I do?" He petted her hair and gave her a kiss, "It's alright, little one. You remember when I told you Dream Walkers can transfer their energy to others? That is all that happend. No need to worry." He tried to comfort her, feeling bad now for having been upset with her.

This had never happend before. He should have known she hadn't done it on purpose. He woke with a start, being jolted from their shared dreams usually left him with a headache but he ignored it. Fury had just barged in the room, demanding answers as Stark tried to get him to quiet down so he and Candy could sleep.

"It's fine, Stark, I'm awake." He sat up with a sigh and took note of the anoyingly white room with his friend in the next bed as his brother rushed over to his side. "Loki! Are you alright, brother? What happend?" He held up a hand to stop the big oaf as he winced in pain, his booming voice right next to his ear making the headache worse.

"I'd like to know the same thing. What the hell happend?" He rearanged himself on the uncomfortable bed, Thor helping him to prop up a few pillows to lean against before trying to relax a bit, a hand cradling his throbbing head. "What is that medication Candy takes for her migraines? I do believe I would like to try it.." He half-joked and turned toward the girl in the next bed, giving her a smile when she started giggling, "Hydrocodone.. Hospital's more likely to give you Morphine, though.. Stronger and works faster."

Tony poked his head out into the hall and asked a passing nurse to get some pain meds for them while Fury was about to start yelling for someone to answer his question. Loki turned back to him before he had the chance, not wanting his headache to become worse again, "Female Dream Walkers are able to transfer their energy to others. It was involuntary, this particular time as we are kindred spirits. She felt my pain and unconciously gave me what was left of her energy. That is why I was so much more powerful afterwards. Which reminds me," He turned back to Candy, "We will need to alter your training a bit. You have not been using your power efficiantly."

She nodded her consent as a nurse entered with some medication followed by a doctor. "I'm okay." Candy told the nurse when she offered her the medicine. Loki accepted what he was offered just fine and was pleased with how quickly it began to dull the pain. The healer was anoying, however. "Why did you collapse, then? If you receved the energy, then you should have been fine." Fury asked while the doctor looked him over.

Loki shooed the man away, "Tend to the girl, I'm fine! I gave her energy back to her... I said leave me be!" Candy giggled at his impatience with the mortal, "They can't just give pain meds and not check to make sure you're alright, silly." "Oh, so it's either be in pain or be annoyed by this damned Mortal Healer? Wonderful!" She couldn't help but laugh harder at his little temper tantrum.

"By the way, why is it I'm the only one that gets these damned headaches after being startled from our dreams? It is truly not fair!" Yep, the meds were working. Candy noticed he was just blerting out whatever came to mind without thinking about it like he usually did. "Chill out, I get 'em too. I think whoever gets startled awake ends up with it.. Where's Bruce anyway? I haven't seen him sense the night before the attack.."

"He's away for business." Fury answered rudely. Candy just rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to Loki as he tried in vein to get the doctor to leave him alone. "He isn't Human. His vitals won't be the same. Loki! Chill, dude." She slid out of her bed and sat next to Loki on his, wraping her arms around him in a big hug that he happily returned. "He's just trying to help the best his pathetic Mortal training has taught him to. No need to get so upset." She combed her fingers through his messy hair as he burried his face in her shoulder, purring contently.

She turned to the doctor, the druged up man still in her arms, "Make you a deal.. I make you laugh and you write him off as being okay to leave?" The doctor scoffed at her, "You're not going to try and argue for your own release?" She shook her head, "Nope." "Fine. But I'll have you know, it's very difficult to make me laugh." That was obvious from the lack of laugh lines and over abundance of frown and worry lines on the mans face. She smiled, challenge accepted!

"Alright! A lady takes her sixty-eight year old father out shopping for some new shoes and they stop to grab a bite to eat at the food court in the mall. There's a teenager sitting at a table nearby with her hair done up in a mohawk, died all different colors; red, green, blue, purple, yellow, orange, you name it. The man just stares at the teenager and every time she looks over, she obviously sees the man staring. Well, finally she gets fed up with it and walks over to the man and says 'What's the matter, old man? Never done anything wild in your life before?' Without mising a beat, the man says, 'I got stoned once and f-ed a parrot. Was wondering if you were my daughter."

He tried. He tried so hard not to laugh. "Got stoned and fucked a parrot! That's awesome! You should be a comedian, babe!" Tony barked out as he doubled over laughing, using Fury for suport. The doctor finally gave in and joined the rest of the room in laughter.

They were released after the doctor looked her over and Loki fell asleep on the ride back to Stark Tower, the meds making him drowsy. He'll be kicking himself later for allowing himself to get so loopy but for now, his big brother carried him up to his room. He looked so sweet, snoring softly as Thor carried him around bridal-style.


A/N: I just realized when starting this chapter that I'd left Bruce out of the last couple! I couldn't think of a way to incorporate him into the chapters without it messing things up.. I mean.. He'd fight as well as Thor against them so they wouldn't have as much chance to use up their magic like that, you know? Then the only reasonable excuse for him to be gone would be that Fury sent him out on some secret assignment.. so yea.. that's how that happened.. sry.. I'm still trying to think of an excuse and think I just came up with one! YAY ideas hitting while talking/writing about it! kay.. I'll stop now..